#thanksgiving #pastormatt #consecration #stewardship

There will be a pizza party at the Christmas program practice on Saturday, November 19th. The practice runs from 10am to noon. #pizza #pizzaparty #christmasplay #christmasplayrehersal

Your generous support in food and monetary donations makes our Outreach ministry possible. Sign up sheets for items for this year’s Thanksgiving Baskets will be in the social hall. Sign up for an item or two and be sure to take a reminder slip telling you that all donated items should be in on Wednesday, November 16. Distribution of the baskets will be Saturday, November 19, from 12:00 pm to 12:30 pm. Thanks to everyone who makes this outreach such a success!! #thanksgiving #

SAVE THE DATE: December 5th at 7:00 pm in the Social Hall Remember that Big Band sound? Remember swing dancing? Do you enjoy Christmas music? The BELC Women are presenting their Winter Concert featuring Twilight Memories, the Big Band sound, playing your favorite Christmas music and they are sure to please! The congregation is invited to join us. Bible Study Leaders mtg. - Tues., Nov. 1, 7:00 pm F.A.B. - Saturday, Nov. 5, 9:30 am | Snack: Sandy Ziesman BELCW Board meeting -

December 2 - Church Decorating Party, 6:30 December 4 - Cheer Bag assembling December 5 - BELCW General Meeting December 11 - Senior Dinner and Christmas program 3:00 pm for Appetizers, Dinner at 3:30 pm 5:00 pm Sunday School Christmas Program December 24 - Christmas Eve service 6pm & 10pm photo credit | Dafne Cholet #calendar #savethedate #december

The biggest date coming up is the Senior Dinner and Children’s Christmas Program scheduled for December 11. We will be making invitations and favors in November and early December, and families are hard at work creating the menu under the direction of Jim Whitman. For our next event we will be Christmas caroling on December 18. Looking ahead into 2017 some of the main activities to make note of are: Youth Sunday, March 5, and of course the Easter Breakfast, April 16. This sum

So much of life revolves around money. We make money, spend it, save it, waste it, hoard it, and we give it. We are bombarded daily with financial decisions ranging from buying a cup of coffee to buying a car. One of the most important decisions regarding our money is what we will give to the Lord through our church. Certainly our financial circumstances affect our giving, but by far the biggest factor is our spiritual maturity. By God’s grace, we understand that God is t

Join with God's people after the Thanksgiving Eve service for a delicious evening of pie. It's the annual Pie Fest! More pie than you could ever eat. The event is after the Wednesday, November 23rd Thanksgiving service. Sign up in the social hall to bring a pie. Coffee and refreshments are provided. #piefest #piefest #newsletternov16

A service of Praise and Thanksgiving will be held on Wednesday, November 23 at 7:00 p.m. Join with God’s people to offer your worship and praise and to give thanks for God’s love and manifold blessings. Pie Fest afterwards! #servicetimes #specialservices #holiday #piefest #newsletternov16

Congregations that approach financial stewardship from a biblical perspective do not view the money Christians give to their church merely as a way to pay its bills. Rather, such congregations see financial contributions as a way to help people grow spiritually in their relationship with God by supporting their church’s mission and ministry with a percentage of their incomes. Our congregation’s Board of Stewardship and Finance has selected the New Consecration Sunday Stewards